Sentences with phrase «gradual shift»

Would it be better to make gradual shifts in response to smaller changes in PE / 10 levels?

As with «The Crucible,» Day - Lewis» big explosion — this time into outright stark - raving, animalistic rage, drooling and towering over Eli while pushing at him to tease him — wouldn't count for much if not for the slow - burn of the rest of the performance, with the actor's gradual shift from at least somewhat human to All - Powerful American Businessman as a Monster shown by his body going from upright to crooked, his face from quietly hateful to anything but.

Due to gradual shifting of sandbars, the waves have since changed.

The divestment would complete the company's gradual shift away from its original focus on generic drugs and nuclear imaging toward branded specialty pharmaceuticals, which now comprise the bulk of its revenues.

Your retirement plan should plot gradual shifts toward more bonds as you approach retirement.

We are being faced not just with gradual shifts in our understanding of ourselves and the world; people experience not just a sense of rapid alteration but of a continual breaking with the past, a perpetual overturning of the established order of things.

In that sense re-direction is a more gradual shift in investment focus than a switch.

Opening moments aside, Ronan carries that gradual shift wonderfully, hinting at her character's anorexia and constant anxiety with a vulnerability unlike anything else she's done previously.

Coverstone said the district's gradual shift into this budgeting approach also helped because some principals had more experience with how this worked before the district implemented student - based budgeting in all schools.

Until now, these changes have been gradual shifts across temperature and moisture gradients, rather than abrupt.

An example was George Kukla's study of snail shells and pollen in layers of loess (wind - blown dust) in Czechoslovakia — another study that was designed to investigate gradual shifts, but in which a close look at the data revealed unexpectedly abrupt transitions.

Driven by both cost, reach and more effectiveness — the ongoing, though gradual shift from print to online marketing of properties continues to dominate.

However, with the market's gradual shift towards petrol offerings, coupled to its superb ride and real - time efficiency, the NX hybrid will perhaps make a strong case for itself.

I know some have bemoaned the series» gradual shift from horror to action, but there've been enough jumps to get my ol' ticker tocking.

This tendency indicates the artist's gradual shift toward abstraction, evidenced in his incteasing use of geometrical and purely formal elements, which, in his hands, become symbolic.

Is there a problem with gradual shifts that the numbers can go back and forth, causing lots of buys and sells?

The changes involved arise from gradual shifts in the shape and orientation of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, and in the present 23 1/2 ° tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation.

In those areas, you'd see a more gradual shift» under climate change.

Pardy expects we'll see a gradual shift out of integrated oil companies and into riskier, more volatile exploration - and - development and oilfield services stocks that can offer more upside, although he stresses that you can't lose sight of the companies» balance sheets.

The gradual shift to a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, the role of technology in driving the transition from boardrooms to basements, the more global and interconnected markets that require greater specialization, flexibility and speed, as well as small - business friendly demographic trends are among those forces that are likely to support a net creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada in the coming ten years.

It's a gradual shift to this new forex, however issues are seemingly falling into place.

This certainly indicates the gradual shift of users to the online market from the traditional medium of grocery purchasing.

There was a gradual shift of emphasis from Christianism to nationalism.

Historian of religions Diana Eck traces the growing popularity of the term «spirituality» to the l99Os when the word «religion» came to seem too static and institutional in its connotations, and a gradual shift occurred to the more non-sectarian term «spirituality» Eck herself uses the latter term to designate «the disciplined nurturing of inner spiritual life» (150 - 51).

I've been on a gradual shift to healthier living and part of that transition has involved adopting an anti-inflammation diet.

Now the POP movement has reaffirmed that it is «committed [to] and driven to advocate for Meat Free Mondays through a gradual shift in dietary habits» across the world.

Only the blind or stupid could not notice a gradual shift since Sept 2013 when we signed Ozil, started to banish the deadwood and stemmed the flow of good players out of the club.

There have been a handful of reasons for this: key position players often leave, there has been a gradual shift from tippy - tappy possession football to a more direct approach and injuries forced the abandonment of the zonal marking system that the team attempted to install at the beginning of last season.

For some women, it's more of a gradual shift to feeling better.

When you return, you won't have the benefit of any gradual shift at bedtime, so many parents find that their babies» sleep schedules are even more difficult to regulate once the trip is over.

A gradual shift in your perspective changes, and what you once thought was unacceptable, becomes desirable.

I don't think there was one true version of socialism, and the gradual shift in agenda began rather earlier, and from 1983 - 92 made a lot of sense.

There should also be a gradual shift towards raising the basic state pension in line with earnings, and, while he would maintain the pensioner's credit, he would freeze the maximum level of payments to limit means - testing as much as possible.

If there is a story of Miliband's political journey in the last five years, according to the senior campaign aide, it is his gradual shift from Wood to Beales — from Miliband's more radical instincts to the cautious tactical politics he had learned during his long stint under Gordon Brown at the Treasury.

The gradual shift of all existing tax credit and benefit claimants on to universal credit is not expected to be finalised until 2021.

There are a group of about 30 MPs - people like Conor McGinn and Phil Wilson - who, while staunchly pro-Europe, represent northern working class seats and have been supportive of Keir Starmer and a gradual shift to a firm position on the customs union.

Deutermann said although the state is considering a gradual shift in the state standards, officials should be looking immediately to decouple teacher evaluations with the exams.

Work and pensions minister Mike Penning has said that a gradual shift from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment will mean a the change can be handled «in a more gradual, controlled and manageable way».

Excavated stone artifacts document a gradual shift from larger, handheld cutting implements to smaller pieces of sharpened stone, known as Middle Paleolithic tools, by around 385,000 years ago, researchers say.

«But there is a gradual shift from treatment to prevention.

Over that same period, movies with an R rating declined from 40 percent to 23 percent among the top 30, «paralleling a gradual shift of violent content in top - grossing movies from the R to PG - 13 category,» the researchers said.

The story of the 2010 flooding in Pakistan is a warning to other vulnerable nations that experts believe will bear the brunt of the gradual shifts in climate and weather patterns expected over the coming decades.

«Water yields from southern Appalachian watersheds in decline since the 1970s: Climate change, gradual shifts in forest structure implicated.»

We are not dealing with a breach in the dyke, but rather with a gradual shifting of the dyke until it dissolves in the ocean.

With the gradual shift away from a world dependent on fossil resources to a world dependent on biomass — and the plethora of technical difficulties this presents — interesting career and business opportunities should be plentiful.

A gradual shift of the balance of anterior (green) and posterior (blue) field might have led to the evolution from fins into limbs.